so you've bought a fancy DSLR because you're tired of your smartphone photos
coming out looking like crap if your shooting environment isn't perfect how
many Instagram filters have been used applied over the years just to hide the
fact that your original photos looked awful but even though SLR is an
incredibly versatile tool the Maze of settings and options to get your pictures looking just right can feel
like an unsolvable puzzle to a photography novice but one of the most
important settings is also one that is not too hard to get the hangup I'm
talking about ISO which stands for international standards organization
which I know makes a ton of sense ISO settings are extremely useful for taking
photos when the lighting around you is less than ideal a lot of you might
remember the days when we all bought rolls of film instead of SD cards and
the primary way one rle of film seem to differ from another was the film's speed
given by ISO or ASA ratings like 100 200
and 400 although it's hard to buy film anymore this is essentially the same
system that's used in modern digital cameras but instead of measuring film's
speed ISO is now a measurement of how much Light reaches the image sensor you
can learn more about that up here so why
does this matter well each time you double the iso rating the amount of light that the camera needs to produce
an image is cut in half suppose you're trying to take that perfect family photo
but then keeping everyone in focus at f2.8 on any lens can be difficult so you
stop down your lens to increase your depth of field but now your shot is way
too dark but instead of using your on camera flash which can render
backgrounds fairly dark you can increase your eyes so to see all those
wonderfully painful Smiles that have been held over all the time you took to
take take that photo increasing the iso setting is also a great idea if you have
to utilize a high shutter speed such as when you're doing sports photography too
low of an ISO setting will make a fast skating hockey player or a soccer ball
hurdling towards the goal look blurry properly exposed so it's critical for
people who shoot sports for a living to get the iso setting correct to work with
a high shutter speed so is it a good idea to just leave your ISO on a high
setting all the time given the obvious advantages of a high ISO you might think
so but there are some significant drawbacks as well higher ISO settings
tend to introduce noise to your photograph which usually makes your pictures look very grainy since the
camera's High sensitivity at a high ISO will also make undesirable noise to be
Amplified well-made modern slrs can usually keep noise at a higher ISO to an
acceptably low level but if you crank the iso to high enough Point your
pictures will start to show the grain very easily lower ISO settings also tend
to produce more realistic looking colors so if you have even lighting it's
probably a good idea to use the lowest ISO setting you can without making your
pictures look too dark just as there were good reasons for people to buy 100s
speeed film back in the day there are still good reasons to use the lowest ISO
setting possible on your digital camera such as when you're taking pictures of a
still object in clear sunlight but if you're concerned about having accurate
shadows and highlights and retaining the most detail in your dynamic range a
higher ISO is still often the way to go especially if you're trying to shoot in
a poorly lit environment so next time you're struggling with getting just the
right shot remember to do a quick check on your ey ISO setting and save yourself
the pain of trying to fix it in Photoshop or having a photo that looks
like a drunken concert selfie and speaking of getting your lighting
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